A glimpse into what was being done for Belgian refugees and what the refugees were doing for themselves came via the Herts Advertiser, a sister paper of The Luton News.

The Belgians are naturally a very industrious people, said a report, which went on to use the St Albans Belgian Relief Committee's work as an example of what was being done for those who had managed to flee the devastation that war had brought to their country.

The committee, where possible, was finding work for the refugees, and those who had no permanent work were kept employed by the committee, the report went on.

The article carried pictures of refugees working on allotments, and Belgian women making their own clothes to wear while in England and ready for their return to their homes.

A carpentry class engaged the men in the making of trunks to carry families' belongings back to Belgium. Eventually they would be making kitchen furniture to re-equip their homes but it was not being glued or screwed together so that it could be easily stored before eventually being shipped to Belgium after the war.

Many of the refugees were widows with children or families whose husbands had been interned. In those cases homes were provided, and in Luton several churches were involved in housing and maintaining unfortunate Belgians.